Improvement in scoops, shovels



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. PAGE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMmEPROVEMENT IN SCOOPS, SHOVELS, 8c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 80,087, dated July 21, 1868.

To all whom t't'may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMES T. PAGE, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Scoops, Shovels, 85o.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this speciiication.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my mprovement; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same, with a wooden handle applied.

Like letters of reference indicate correspond ing parts in both figures.

My invention consists of a scoop, shovel, or similar article of hardware, made from a single piece of sheet metal, and formed by dies, so that the rear end constitutes a stiffened handle of itself, or a socket for the insertion of a Wooden handle, as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, A indicates the scoop, shovel, dust-pan, or other article of hardware in its finished state. It is formed by first cutting in the proper form from the sheet metal, and stamping to form the blade a, and then by means of' suitable dies fashionin g the rear part into a tubular socket, b, which decreases in size backward till it forms an elongated handle of itself, as in Fig. 1, or a suitable receptacle for a wooden handle, as in Fig. 2, in which case, if desirable, an additional bearing-loop1 c, may be furnished to receive the inner end of the Wooden handle. This is necessary only when great strain is applied, as in the case of use as a shovel.

The formation as above in a single piece inmanufacture. The great advantage, however, arises from the peculiar formation of the rear of the device into the gradually tapering socket b, thereby furnishing not only a handle of itself, or a bearing for a wooden handle, but by its peculiar shape giving great strength at that point where the greatest strain comes. well known that the tubular form embodies the greatest strength, and when with this is combined the flaring form as above described, my improvement presents the strongest scoop or shovel with which I am acquainted.

By making the blade more or less iattened, the device is adapted to the various purposes of scoop, shovel, dust-pan, Ste., the rear formation, however, remaining the same in all cases.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article of manufacture, is

The scoop A, or equivalent, made from a single sheet of metal, and combining with the blade a the tubular socketb, at the rear, constructed and arranged as described, and for the purpose specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES T. PAGE.

Witnesses:

J. A. DAvTs, W. J. CREELMAN.

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